The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-09-23
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS.

John Hennessy, Of Grand Forks,
dropped dead from heart disease.
Patents issued: Dakota: T. A. Fraser,
Mitchell, track cleaner; G. M. Powell,
Geneva, harrow; Z. =. Warren,
Pfankinton, car brake.
DR. w. G. Glenn, a methodist preach
er of Hutchinson county, is in
Jail charged with incest with his two
daughters.
New Dakota pensions: II Phare'
Wilmot; r. Herbesen. Pierre; G. ".
Weeks, Altamont; D. "A. Grant, Star
key Phetteplace, Howard; r. Clark,
Mitchell. Montana. z, Pott, Maiden;
w. HI. I'll. Handley. Bozeman.
A letter from DR.. Conkey, president
OF the Duluth, Huron & Denver rail
road, says it has not been sold to the
Minneapolis q Pacific, aud there is no
probability of its being.
The RedfeId military company is
contemplating a trip to Chicago to
attend the encampment next month.
The clothing firm Of Fosdick 4 Telli-
son at Mitchell, which assigned recent
ly, reopened business, having made q
satisfactory settlement.
B. A. Stafford, arrested on a change
Of adultry, was discharged by Justice
Bowman of Ashton, the evidence be-
ing deemed insufficient to support the
charges.
At Mandon, the houses occupied by
Fred Wigginton and John Borgstrom
were burned. Loss, $4,000; insur-
ance, $1,000.
A Pembina dispatch TO the Fargo
Argus says that Col. Webb has received
a.dispatch from Adit. Gen. Tyner that
he has not been dismissed, and he
could resign if he desired to do. so.
Col. Brown is understood to have re-
ceived a similar dispatch.
"Bony" Dewing was arrested at
Mitchell on adyices from the sheriff Of
Adams county, Wis, who wants him
for burglary committed there in March.
Dewing was captured by the sheriff OF
Moody county last spring, but broke
Jail.
A farmer at Mitchell named Hazen,
living tour miles north, saw a neigh
boris boy near his melon patch and
fired a charge of shot into the boys
leg. Hazen is In jail.
A singular sequel to an elopement
comes from Frankfort near Redield.
Frank Reeser wooed Mary Valdez.
Her father objected and Frank plann-
ed an elopement. He got the girl out
the back way and then went back aft
err some of her effects. The old gentle
man heard OF it and arrested Frank
or burglary.
Attorney General Templeton an
nounced that Gov. Church has de-
cided it is not sale to organize the.
proposed counties Of Pierce and
Church as the legislature failed to att
tach them to any judicial subdivi-
sion, and the territory from which
they are created is now in two judiei
al subdivisions. The law of 1885
makes it necessary chat the clerk of
court of the judicial subdivision
to which it is attached shall be noti-
fed of the election and the votes are
TO be canvassed by the officers or the
county in said subdivision. There
being two of these cases, the gov
ernor has decided to ask congress to
give the district Judge authority to
designate one of the subdivision as
the correct one. This will defer the
organization for a year.at least.
When Judge Campbell closed his adj
dress at Huron, q resolution. offsred
By Augustine Davis, was unanimous.
" adopted, there being at lest 500
persons in the hall: Resolved. That
NE, the citizens of Beadle county, ear.
nestly favor q division of the terrific
ry on the seventh standard parallel.
First, because small states have
snail taxes and large states large tax
Is; second, because the smaller che
state the more responsible thegovern-
ment to the people; third, because one
state means perpetual evil domination
OF the Northern Pacific; fourth, be,
cause two states mean q larger and
greater power in congress.
Mayor Mentzer Of Mitchell. received
an autograph letter from President
Cleveland in reply to an invitation
by the city council to visit the terri
torial fair. IN closing the president
says: This pleasure I must defer to
some future date: bnt in the mean
while I beg to assure your people Of
my appreciation Of their courteous
attention and regard"
Tankton Special: 1t may be stat
ed with positiveness that there is no
truth in the sensation t~elegraphed
hence that the asylum trustees would
90 on and build the wings to the asy
dunn in defiance of Gov. Church and